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"Why Plates Are Round"
Because, of breasts with their nipples, of eggs so warm
beneath their hen they seem to pulse, to throb, to give birth
to themselves the way when your mouth has been on my nipple
so long I begin to dissolve, begin to travel through your
body, all larger longer than my own and lodge there, both
a conceiving and a consummating, of the way a fetus curls,
you curl up like that when you are cold being too long without
me, when you are dreaming of me and of you, when you make
me small enough to be cradled inside you and I am heard
the way long ago the curve of the cave wall listened to its
women, of the way in front of the fire we make each other
happy making a circle of ourselves, of the way your tongue,
so all many fingered, moves in slow circles and mine doing
the same, of the days you need to be told to eat and a plate
tells you, says open, says parts inside of you all curve, remind
you one of the other and all bring you back to womb, to me,
of the circle in the center of your eye and around that
another circle and around that the world, our own planet
and all other planets and it is through these circles you find
me, of the way flowers learn to stretch for sun, learn warm
means round and want to grow up to be circles and mostly
do and you give them to me to make my mouth curve the
way petals do and your flowers in my hands make a better
message than your mouth except when it is on mine, which
is never often enough if you need these flowers to smile to
me for you when it is only your smile in my hands I want, of
what you are thinking of and what I am thinking of, the
edges of seeds, the shape of cells, and you liking my
kneecaps semi-elliptical and through them you coming to
understand magic and my fascination with elbows and all, of
the way when I put food on a plate for you I am what is
on the plate and the secrets we make together, because
of the way I love you and because spoon is a feminine noun.
~Frances Driscoll
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